"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Dreamlands of danger
Darkside pleasures
Bad behavior
Dreamlands of danger
Darkside pleasures
At their best
At their best
Punk rock, shell toes
Horns and halos
Wicked whit wings
And pointed tails
Devil's eyes and nine inch nails
Nocturnal renegades
The eternal drug raid
I go by the name of Mr. Shifty Switchblade
Getting paid in the shade
As lyrics ricochet,
Of the walls
From the ceiling to the floor
Off the door
And down the hall
I'm evil like Knievel
Kicking white trash
Psycho cerebral, palsy ballsy
Bad ass
Dress in black
From the wrong side of the tracks
Crazy Town
Yo. we strike like deep impact
[Chorus]
Why can't you see?
I cannot feel till you bring
Me down
Dream lands of danger
Darkside pleasures
Bad behavior
Dreamlands of danger
Darkside Pleasures
At their best
My subconscious launches me
Into evil territory
I'm surrounded by voyeurs
And crack smoking lawyers
No shame, Burnt lips
Tripping on acid rain
Legally insane deranged,
Some people, never change
[Chorus]
Nasty na na , ha, ha
Darkside marijuana
Fueled of the drama
Drifting on the darkside
I'm the black eye bomber
Do what I do on a darkside
Rendezvous
Raising hell, out the shell
Of fantasies I never tell
Dispersin' untamed perversion
My bad Brain's working
Circle jerking, rocking riddles,
Sex pistol, sexperts
Acting uncivil
[Chorus]
Darkside pleasures
Bad behavior
Dreamlands of danger
Darkside pleasures
At their best
At their best
Punk rock, shell toes
Horns and halos
Wicked whit wings
And pointed tails
Devil's eyes and nine inch nails
Nocturnal renegades
The eternal drug raid
I go by the name of Mr. Shifty Switchblade
Getting paid in the shade
As lyrics ricochet,
Of the walls
From the ceiling to the floor
Off the door
And down the hall
I'm evil like Knievel
Kicking white trash
Psycho cerebral, palsy ballsy
Bad ass
Dress in black
From the wrong side of the tracks
Crazy Town
Yo. we strike like deep impact
[Chorus]
Why can't you see?
I cannot feel till you bring
Me down
Dream lands of danger
Darkside pleasures
Bad behavior
Dreamlands of danger
Darkside Pleasures
At their best
My subconscious launches me
Into evil territory
I'm surrounded by voyeurs
And crack smoking lawyers
No shame, Burnt lips
Tripping on acid rain
Legally insane deranged,
Some people, never change
[Chorus]
Nasty na na , ha, ha
Darkside marijuana
Fueled of the drama
Drifting on the darkside
I'm the black eye bomber
Do what I do on a darkside
Rendezvous
Raising hell, out the shell
Of fantasies I never tell
Dispersin' untamed perversion
My bad Brain's working
Circle jerking, rocking riddles,
Sex pistol, sexperts
Acting uncivil
[Chorus]
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